Byte array question

[Dan Winsor]

Sybren Stuvel wrote:
> dan.winsor at gmail.com enlightened us with:
> > I want to send thorugh the API.  However, no matter how I try it,
> > Java on the other end doesn't like what I'm passing it there.
>
> What have you tried and how did it fail?

See below.

> > How can I mimic a byte array in python?
>
> Strings?

OK, I'll put that attempt up front.  Here's a couple of tries:

<test code snippet>
fileobj = open('testfile.txt', mode='r')
chararray = fileobj.read()
fileobj.close()

soap.addAttachmentsToIssue(auth,'TST-4','testfile.txt',chararray)

<fails with>
SOAPpy.Types.faultType: <Fault soapenv:Server.userException:
org.xml.sax.SAXException: Found character data inside an array element
while deserializing: <SOAPpy.Types.structType detail at -1216265236>:
{'hostname': '<removed>', 'faultData': <SOAPpy.Types.structType
faultData at -1216226708>: {'exception': None, 'message': 'Found
character data inside an array element while deserializing'}}>

<'nother snippet>
fileobj = open('testfile.txt', mode='r')
chararray = array.array('c')
chararray.fromfile(fileobj, stat('testfile.txt').st_size)
fileobj.close()

soap.addAttachmentsToIssue(auth,'TST-4','testfile.txt',chararray)

<fails with>
SOAPpy.Types.faultType: <Fault soapenv:Server.userException:
org.xml.sax.SAXException: Found character data inside an array element
while deserializing: <SOAPpy.Types.structType detail at -1216482740>:
{'hostname': '<removed>', 'faultData': <SOAPpy.Types.structType
faultData at -1216075252>: {'exception': None, 'message': 'Found
character data inside an array element while deserializing'}}>

<'nother snippet>
fileobj = open('testfile.txt', mode='r')
chararray = array.array('c')
chararray.fromfile(fileobj, stat('testfile.txt').st_size)
#chararray = fileobj.read()
fileobj.close()

soap.addAttachmentsToIssue(auth,'TST-4','testfile.txt',[chararray])

This one "works" in that it runs, but the server on the other end gets
garbage unrelated to the test file.

I've tried a few other other ideas including other modes for the array
(b/B), but those are the highlights.